View full-text article in PMC BMC Syst Biol. 2008 Jul 8;2:59. doi: 10.1186/1752-0509-2-59 Search in PMC Search in PubMed View in NLM Catalog Add to search Copyright and License information Copyright © 2008 Dias et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PMC Copyright notice Table 2. Theoretical yields and maintenance coefficients Process description VFA Oxygen Cell growth on acetate YX,AcS=(4⋅δ+0.67⋅y⋅δ+0.33⋅y−1)(4⋅δ+2⋅K1+1.27) YX,AcO2=(4⋅δ+0.67⋅y⋅δ+0.33⋅y−1)(0.33⋅y⋅K1−0.12⋅y+2.27+2⋅K1) Cell growth on propionate YX,PropS=(4⋅δ+0.67⋅y⋅δ+0.33⋅y−1)(4⋅δ+2⋅K2+0.71) YX,PropO2=(4⋅δ+0.67⋅y⋅δ+0.33⋅y−1)(0.33⋅y⋅K2−0.22⋅y+1.71+2⋅K2) PHB Storage YPHBS=(4⋅δ+0.67⋅y⋅δ+0.33⋅y−1)(4⋅5⋅δ+1) YPHBO2=(4⋅δ+0.67⋅y⋅δ+0.33⋅y−1)(2.12−0.21⋅y) PHV Storage YPHVS=(4⋅δ+0.67⋅y⋅δ+0.33⋅y−1)(4⋅8⋅δ+0.8) YPHVO2=(4⋅δ+0.67⋅y⋅δ+0.33⋅y−1)(2−0.27⋅y) PH2MV Storage YPH2MVS=(4⋅δ+0.67⋅y⋅δ+0.33⋅y−1)(5⋅δ+0.67) YPH2MVO2=(4⋅δ+0.67⋅y⋅δ+0.33⋅y−1)(1.92−0.31⋅y) Maintenance mS=2(4⋅δ+0.67⋅y⋅δ+0.33⋅y−1)⋅mATP mO2=(2+0.33⋅y)(4⋅δ+0.67⋅y⋅δ+0.33⋅y−1)⋅mATP